Matters have come to a boil in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tens of thousands of well-trained, disciplined and heavily armed M23 soldiers have come out of some bush and given the hapless ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety.

Approximately six million people have died in the conflict in the eastern D.R.C. since 1996. For decades, numerous armed ...